Crocus February 2011

[Armin]

A nice pink tom seedling in the garden, open in yesterday's sunshine. I keep selecting good seedlings to bulk up in pots but every year I find more.

Martin,
nice 'pinkies'. They can compete with cv. Roseus.
Do you still have your unusual pink marbled tommie?

[johnw]

A nice pink tom seedling in the garden, open in yesterday's sunshine. I keep selecting good seedlings to bulk up in pots but every year I find more.

Lovely pink toms and baby toms Martin.

johnw

[Martin Baxendale]

A nice pink tom seedling in the garden, open in yesterday's sunshine. I keep selecting good seedlings to bulk up in pots but every year I find more.

Martin,
nice 'pinkies'. They can compete with cv. Roseus.
Do you still have your unusual pink marbled tommie?

Yes, just the one corm still. I'm raising seedlings from it to see if the marbling/speckling is genetic and passes to the offspring.

[Janis Ruksans]

A few in flower here today.

Crocus corsicus 1
Crocus corsicus

Don't like corsicus! (front plants without stripes)
Janis

[Janis Ruksans]

Opinions on those with ? please.
Crocus scepusiensis var Leucostigma ?
?

Can't see stigma! Must be white or whitish.
Janis

[Michael J Campbell]

Thanks Armin and Janis, the Corsicus imposter's are now in the bin,

[Gerdk]

Crocus tommasinianus appeared in an unexpected place near my home.
I have no idea who choose this ideal site for naturalizing.
Gerd

Hi Gerd,
I'm glad to see spring begins in NRW with such fine tommies in your neighborhood.
Nature seems to be about 1 week ahead of here...

Thank you Armin - you surely know, we in the north are always superior ( )

Gerd

[Armin]

Gerd,
I know But as the saying goes: 'It's nice to be a 'Preiss' but it is higher to be a 'Bayer'

[I.S.]

Two days ago I made a few picture in my garden which I like to share here.
The first one is very rare and unusual striped form of adamii for my location. The second and thirt one are standart forms of adamii by my selection
  C. biflorus subsp. adamii

[udo]

Ibrahim, nice Crocus biflorus ssp.adamii.
Here my last pictures, before the winter comes back:
Cr.adanensis
    bornmuelleri
    kerndorffiorum, in the middle from the pot

[I.S.]

  Thank you very much Dirk not as much as yours!
Here is my C. biflorus subsp. biflorus selections. We see always striped forms of subsp. biflorus but my favorite is more speckled forms and speckled forms are more common here on wild and I suppose they are more vigorous too.

[art600]

Ibrahim

I agree with you that the speckled forms are best.  The speckled form of melantherus is a particular favourite.

[I.S.]

  Here are some more pics from my garden. Sorry about low quality of resized pics.
C. biflorus nubigena (nines are stained dark outer pedals while usualy striped)
C. biflorus alexandrii (very light speckled turkish forms no selected)
C. ancyrensis (Abant)
C. antalyensis (from northern turkey mine has pale style)
C. antalyensis (from Fethiye where should be subsp. striatus but mine has yellow style)

 

[Janis Ruksans]

Excellent pictures, Ibrahim. Hope you will have some flowers when I will visit you after few weeks.
Janis

[I.S.]

  I hope too Janis. This year they they are in flower earlier then normal even my olivieri start to flower! normaly they flower in mart!.
  Here are my C. candidus selections.